Harvest Series

What This Episode Is About
This is the final episode of the Harvest Series, and for the first time in ten seasons, the host is the guest.
After 143 conversations with scientists, philosophers, monks, activists, and artists, Rose Claverie turns the microphone on herself. What did a decade of listening actually do to her? What changed? What came too late? What surprised her most?
This is not a highlights reel. It's an honest account of a slow, quiet transformation, the kind that happens when you spend years asking other people the hardest questions.
A huge thank you to Roman and Burak, the visionaries behind Harvest.
Joel Moriasi (producer), Alice (les Belles Fréquences), and Chambord for the music!
and also Naz, Rita, Neil, and Alix for their support, and the gorgeous Harvest team!
This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/
You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.
Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.
Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners
Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

On this episode of the Harvest Series, host Rose Claverie sits down with explorer and Blue Zones creator Dan Buettner to explore what really helps people live longer, healthier lives. After decades studying the world’s longest-living populations, Dan argues that longevity is less about supplements, discipline, or biohacking and more about environment, social connection, movement, purpose, and community.
The conversation explores modern society, processed food, loneliness, urban design, capitalism, faith, friendship, happiness, and aging. Dan explains why healthy environments shape healthy behavior more effectively than willpower ever can and why governments and cities play a major role in public health outcomes. The episode also examines purpose, family, meaningful relationships, and how modern life quietly disconnects humans from the conditions they evolved for.
Dan also reflects on parenting, legacy, curiosity, and his future work redesigning cities around Blue Zone principles. This is a conversation about longevity, but also about creating lives that feel more connected, meaningful, and human.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Dan Buettner
00:52 Imagination and exploration
02:02 Why modern life is going in the wrong direction
03:20 The lessons of the Blue Zones
04:16 Stop changing behavior, change environment
05:05 Neighborhoods and life expectancy
06:24 Can governments create new Blue Zones?
07:55 Food systems, capitalism, and responsibility
10:13 Government policy and public health
11:09 Faith, friendship, and longevity
13:31 Freedom, discipline, and social structures
14:50 Governments, health, and regulation
16:51 Food or friendship: what matters more?
17:25 Reflections on Shaka Senghor
19:28 George Plimpton and changing his life
20:35 Feeling different and curiosity
21:08 Visiting the Blue Zones
22:39 Living in Ikaria
23:14 Wine, pleasure, and joy in longevity
25:18 Plant medicine and altered states
25:43 The secret to healthy skin
26:21 AI and the future of longevity
27:15 Aging, happiness, and emotional wellbeing
28:01 What creates a “dark zone”?
28:38 Legacy and raising children
29:48 How to end things gracefully
30:15 Beau Lotto’s question about action
31:05 Purpose, values, and meaning
32:47 Curating your social circle
34:01 Why people don’t act on good advice
35:35 Question for Michael Pollan
36:11 New Blue Zones and future projects
37:04 Designing healthier cities
37:32 Closing reflections
This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/
You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.
Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.
Credits:
Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
Music by: Chambord

Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners
Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

On this episode of the Harvest Series, host Rose Claverie sits down with neuroscientist and perception researcher Beau Lotto to explore how the brain constructs reality. Rather than simply observing the world, Beau argues that humans actively create meaning through perception shaped by evolution, emotion, memory, and social experience.
The conversation explores anxiety, stress, uncertainty, social belonging, resilience, and why humans are biologically wired toward threat detection. Beau explains how perception influences behavior, why accountability matters, and why modern education systems often reward certainty while suppressing curiosity and experimentation. Through neuroscience and practical examples, he challenges the idea that people truly see reality objectively.
The episode also focuses heavily on growth, parenting, leadership, and creativity. Beau shares powerful stories about raising children, encouraging curiosity, creating environments for discovery, and helping people embrace uncertainty rather than fear it. This is a conversation about perception, adaptation, and learning how to navigate an unpredictable world with courage and openness.
To know more about Beau Lotto and his work : www.be.evolvabel.me
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Beau Lotto
01:07 Perception as imagination
01:28 Anxiety and imagined threats
02:15 Holding multiple realities at once
03:02 Sensations, emotions, and perception
04:30 Hormones, stress, and cortisol
05:16 Why humans focus on negativity
06:29 Social exclusion as a modern threat
08:29 How perception shapes behavior
09:15 Reducing stress vs reducing its source
10:26 Preparing how you enter each moment
11:57 The brain as a practice system
13:20 Emotional contagion and relationships
15:05 Why conflict is necessary for learning
17:33 Growth vs true understanding
19:52 Why education rewards certainty
20:47 Travel, identity, and perspective
22:14 Why life has always been uncertain
24:23 Subjective feelings vs objective reality
25:29 Raising resilient children
27:51 AI, rapid change, and the future of education
31:05 Awareness, action, and accountability
35:24 Harvest reflections and imagination
38:11 Adding energy vs consuming energy
39:10 Beau Lotto’s mother and childhood curiosity
42:12 Happiness vs meaningful living
44:12 The bee experiments and child scientists
49:00 Question for Dan Buettner
50:33 Why accountability matters
51:06 The importance of doubt
52:13 How to deal with endings
53:39 Love, uncertainty, and parenting
You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.
Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.
Credits:
Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
Music by: Chambord

This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/
Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners
Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

The Harvest Series podcast, hosted by Rose Claverie, welcomes theoretical physicist and cosmologist Janna Levin for a conversation on black holes, imagination, mortality, and the limits of human understanding. Recorded during Harvest, this episode explores how science and wonder coexist at the edge of the known universe.
Levin reflects on black holes, gravitational waves, infinity, and why scientists must become comfortable with uncertainty. Moving between philosophy, cosmology, death, and human meaning, the conversation reveals science not as cold certainty, but as an ongoing relationship with mystery.
What happens when the deeper we look into the universe, the less certain we become about ourselves?
You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.
Chapters
00:00 – Introduction to Janna Levin
01:05 – Why science needs imagination
02:03 – Einstein and thought experiments
03:06 – Conversations and contradictions at Harvest
05:10 – Parents, risk, and unconventional paths
06:06 – What black holes really are
08:24 – Why black holes fascinate us
09:06 – Infinity and the shape of the universe
11:02 – Why scientists say “I don’t know”
12:34 – Women in science and identity
13:06 – Does the universe have a sound?
14:28 – What humans are actually made of
14:59 – What happened before the Big Bang?
16:04 – Space race, SpaceX, and geopolitics
19:54 – Seeing Earth as one planet
20:47 – From philosophy to physics
22:01 – Science, spirituality, and meaning
23:54 – Death, nature, and continuity
25:25 – Ordinary life and cosmic thinking
26:19 – Legacy and curiosity
27:11 – How to deal with endings
28:18 – When will the universe end?
29:14 – Music on the moon
30:10 – Children, bees, and scientific discovery
30:49 – Living at the edge of comprehension
31:21 – Closing reflections
Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.
Credits:
Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
Music by: Chambord

This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit: https://sparkofsouls.com/
Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel

On this episode of the Harvest Series, host Rose Claverie sits down with Shaka Senghor for a deeply personal conversation about survival, transformation, and imagination. After spending 19 years in prison, including years in solitary confinement, Shaka rebuilt his life through storytelling, philosophy, meditation, and writing. His journey raises difficult questions about justice, trauma, violence, and redemption.
Shaka reflects on growing up in Detroit during the crack epidemic, surviving gun violence, and the emotional weight of incarceration in America. He speaks candidly about shame, masculinity, systemic racism, forgiveness, and what it means to heal without denying responsibility for the past. The discussion moves beyond prison reform into something much more human: how people rebuild themselves after devastation.
The episode also explores creativity and ambition. Shaka explains why imagination became essential to his survival, how writing transformed his understanding of himself, and why he now wants to focus on fiction, film, and art rather than only being viewed through the lens of incarceration. This is a conversation about resilience, identity, and refusing to live a small life.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Shaka Senghor
01:18 Imagination as survival
02:08 Solitary confinement and mental freedom
04:12 Reflections from Harvest
05:27 Childhood abuse and running away
06:14 Detroit, crack cocaine, and violence
06:39 The shooting and prison sentence
07:38 Trauma, PTSD, and accountability
09:02 Receiving a 17-to-40-year sentence
09:58 Mentors and transformation in prison
11:00 Meditation, journaling, and mindfulness
12:11 Malcolm X and self-education
13:17 Discovering writing in prison
15:13 Radical honesty and self-examination
17:20 Ambition, imagination, and dreaming bigger
19:57 How parole and release worked
21:51 Spirituality and questioning God
24:14 Forgiveness and healing with his mother
27:20 Breaking cycles of violence
30:03 What prisons ask him most often
32:02 Rich and poor people are more alike than different
35:19 Forgiveness as liberation
37:48 Masculinity and modern culture
39:27 Parenting, resilience, and overprotection
41:12 Wanting to move beyond prison identity
43:12 Returning to fiction and screenwriting
45:03 Legacy and resilience
47:25 Intentional endings and closure
49:03 What writing taught him about himself
52:20 Question for the next Harvest guest
52:58 Final reflections
You can follow us on Instagram at @HarvestSeries or @rose.claverie for updates.
Watch our podcast episodes and speaker sessions on YouTube: Harvest Series.
Credits:
Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
Producer in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi & team
Music by: Chambord

This season of the Harvest Series podcast is made possible by Spark of Light. To learn more, visit https://sparkofsouls.com/.
Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel